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The astonishing benefits available

through the proper use of LSD-

documented by medical research

and supported by personal testi-

mony. A positive approach to the

most controversial issue of our time

THE PROBLEM-SOLVING

P. G. STAFFORD and B. H. GOLIGHTLY

Preface by Dr. Humphry Osmond

Director, Bureau of Research in Neurology and Psychiatry

New Jersey Neuropsychiatric Institute, Princeton

Introduction by Dr. Duncan Blewett

Chairman, Department of Psychology

University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus

Afterword by Dr. Stanley Krippner

Director, Dream Laboratory

Maimonides Medical Center

More exciting than the gaudiest psychedelic trip are the dra-

matic, problem-solving breakthroughs documented in this

unique investigation of the positive uses of LSD.

BREAKTHROUGH -A team of doctors studying the effects of

LSD on severe alcoholics finds rates of cure as high as 50%!

BREAKTHROUGH -A young college student applies LSD to a

learning situation and teaches himself enough German in one

week to qualify for the second-year course he wants to take!

BREAKTHROUGH -An American Naval officer, working for

years on a submarine detection device, finds the solution in

ten minutes after approaching the problem through LSD!

BREAKTHROUGH — A compulsive gambler is cured of his obses-

sion; a woman tormented by frigidity experiences sexual ful-

fillment for the first time; a confirmed homosexual discovers

the true nature of his sexual drive; a celebrated writer breaks

the creative block that has inhibited his work—each as a

result of the LSD experience!

BREAKTHROUGH — In the treatment of mental illness (for

which LSD has been called an ideal tool); in the treatment of

problem children (whom LSD has been able to reach when all

other techniques have failed); in the treatment of psychoso-

matic illness (including unexpected cures for asthmatic and

bronchial conditions)!

BREAKTHROUGH -In treatment of the terminally ill; in cases

of chronic depression, in situations of marital incompatibility!

BREAKTHROUGH — In understanding and faith, in an era when

"God Is Dead" has become a catch phrase and the fabric of

society looks increasingly threadbare!

BREAKTHROUGH — In awareness of the special properties of

the most powerful drug known to man; in knowledge of what

it may mean to the individual, and to society—today and in

the years ahead.

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The psychedelics are the strongest tools ever

dreamed of for man's betterment.

—Dr. Duncan Blewett

Macleans Magazine

My own belief is that . . . these new mind changers

[the psychedelic drugs] will tend in the long run to

deepen the spiritual life. . . . And this revival of reli-

gion will be at the same time a revolution . . . religion

will be transformed into an activity concerned mainly

with experience and intuition—an everyday mysti-

cism underlying and giving significance to everyday

rationality, everyday tasks and duties, everyday

human relationships.

—Aldous Huxley

Collected Essays

I looked at the paper I was to draw on. I was com-

pletely blank. . . . Suddenly I saw the finished project.

I did some quick calculations. . . . It would fit on the

property and not only that . . . it would meet the cost

and income requirements. It was contemporary

architecture with the richness of a cultural heritage. . .

it used history and experience but did not copy it. I

began to draw . . . I worked at a pace I would not

have thought I was capable of. I completed four

sheets of fairly comprehensive sketches. I was not

tired but I was satisfied that I had caught the essence

of the image. . . . It was a magnificent day.

—Architect using LSD to help de-

sign a shopping center for a re-

sort-university community.

Use of Psychedelic Agents to Fa-

cilitate Creative Problem Solving

We began to study a group of very difficult psycho-

pathic alcoholics. We have now treated sixty of them,

and half are no longer alcoholic after one treatment;

so we do see that this drug has great potential for

changing people.

—Dr. Abram Hoffer

The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy

The Use of

When I took the drug myself, I found that I was suf-

fering from the delusion that I had been psychoana-

lyzed. I had spent seven and a half years on the

couch and over $20,000, and so I thought I had been

psychoanalyzed. But a few sessions with LSD con-

vinced me otherwise.

Those who advocate the drug's use are not, in the

main, after kicks, nor are they interested in anti-

social activity. These advocates, who include intel-

lectuals, professionals, and scientists, claim that the

drug offers great benefits to the individual—rich

inner experience, freedom to be himself, a chance

for further development of his personality, and a

loving rather than a hostile or indifferent attitude

toward other people.

Experiments with LSD have led researchers to believe

that this drug has potentialities in the treatment of

alcoholism, delinquency and various forms of neu-

rosis which far exceed conventional therapeutic tech-

niques. Learning in many instances seems acceler-

ated under the influence of LSD, and there is growing

evidence that this drug can facilitate creative prob-

lem-solving. . . . LSD and related drugs also show

great promise in helping people to achieve better

sexual and family lives. They remind many of the

importance of spontaneity, intimacy and adventure

in a society becoming increasingly apathetic and

impersonal.

—Dr. Mortimer A. Hartman

The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy

—Nevitt Sanford

Utopiates

—"Declaration on the LSD Crisis,"

issued at an LSD Conference in

San Francisco sponsored by the

University of California Extension

LSD

The Problem-Solving

Psychedelic

P. G. STAFFORD

B. H. GOLIGHTLY

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